Summary: Your first Exercise

In this lesson, Dan takes you through your first guitar exercise. Our aim is to get the left and right hand in sync and working together. We will also learn how to read tab, how to pick properly, and how to get those fingers stretched out!

Summary: 5678 spider exercise

These exercises are known as ‘spider exercises’ as they help us gain independence in each of our fingers (which ends up looking like a spider is climbing up and down your fretboard!). As shown in the video we will start by getting the hand into the correct position. As a quick recap you need to:

• 1. Put your thumb at the back of the neck
• 2. Spread your 4 fingers across 4 frets, one finger per fret
• 3. Make sure you push down on the edge of the fret
• 4. As you start, be sure to alternate pick with your right hand

We also look at how to read guitar tab in the video, so if you need a little reminder, please take a look at this diagram:

Interactive Tab: The Full Exercise

Click on the link below to see the full exercise in tab. Remember, our tab player allows you to actually play along with the tab and slow it down if you need, so get your guitars at the ready!